TBH if it’s just for that I’d rather use nix packages. But flatpak’s sandboxed app are better for sus packages or proprietary-might-spy-everywhere packages.

I personally only use navidrome’s web UI for full random, or listenBrainz when I know what I want to play. LB’s Navidrome integration is brand new so there’s some instances where the played track isn’t the correct one, although it does help a lot if the track is properly tagged.

Although I don’t like using random really much. My collection is vast, and some albums are really just there to be played every 5 months. That’s why I prefer radio that actually recommends my most listened to tracks first, then lesser listened after a while of not listening to them

My latest setup is probably too complicated for what I need… But it works.

• The music server is a Navidrome server

• I play those files using ListenBrainz so that I have centralised public playlists and being able to play tracks rereleased in multiple albums.

• To add files to Navidrome, I use a local copyparty for a webui, as well syncthing to have a subset of the library always locally available in case of the server crashing or internet outage

• When I don’t have the mood for any particular playlist, I use Alistral to generate a radio based on my listening habits

• Of course 99% of the files are tagged using MusicBrainz Picard

Best part, the whole stack is foss software! And self host able too. I just don’t self host listenBrainz as I prefer the public instance

Well it really depends on your use case because as a daily driver I never see any buggy page. Not even the enhanced protection thing is blocking pages

I really like librewolf. Does need some getting used to and actually learn to manage profiles (which it sadly remove the new profile browser for some reason?), but pretty great and “just works”

Been maining Linux mint for 3 years now. I did distrohop once to nobara to see if the grass was greener on the other side, but had to revert due to Nvidia.

… The grass wasn’t green, but tasted exactly the same. Apart from Nvidia (which isn’t a distro issue but more shitty company that can’t make things right), the only noticeable changes is going from cinnamon to KDE.

There’s no “stupid distro” nor “smart distros”. Everything is valid. (Although I’d argue that Linux mint is the best beginner distro, to let people get into Linux gently before eventually trying something else)

You’re looking for !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Linux, in an nutshell.

A lot of Linux issues are actually just messing around then finding out

TBF I haven’t had a sound issue after Linux mint switched to pipewire.

Mint main here, and I’ll say outright: most distros are good for gaming. Got steam? Then you have an easy install of proton. Got flatpak? You got bottle to help you setup wine configs.

Mint is not setup out of the box for gaming (unlike distros like nobara), but it’s still arguably easier to install than windows’s exes.

I recommend mint to start getting into Linux. Keep it 4-5 months as daily driver, then you’ll be free to try other things. Personally I did some distro hopping, but came back to it as it was just… Good and stable.

… Until you talk about Nvidia. By default, mint uses the nouveau drivers… Which can be hit or miss. There’s the driver manager to help you one click install other versions, but you might have to try a few to get it working. If steam games crashes on startup, but not in Nvidia GPU only mode, that might be a bad version. That’s not really a mint thing, but it’s good to know.

Personally I use docker on a debian 13. I don’t need an interface as it’s all available from the browser.

For my dev container, a simple vscode tunnel works

Meanwhile, on debian (and derivatives):

Use the official build, but you are forced to update manually at each new update

Use the flatpak build, but can’t use screen sharing

I did that once… Because a script I worked with was hardcoded for it and was distributed as a binary…

Personally I’ve come to hate main because it breaks habits easily. I’m working 75% of the time on master repos, but then I might need to do a quick edit on a main repo and suddenly my git checkout master doesn’t work.

Or even copy pasting scripts from one project to another can easily break if you forget to change the branch

The reason behind the change is pretty stupid anyway (I’m against slavery but it shouldn’t be treated like a slur still)

Steamos is a great introduction… If you touch desktop mode of course.

Personally I recommend Linux mint, or even KUbuntu or Cinnamon Ubuntu (gnome is not meant for windows refugees so better not show it yet)

*Except for beginners

Try a beginner distro, and when you’re done with the tutorial, go ahead and install your arches or nixes, IDC

The only driver I need is the proprietary NVidia drivers, but you need to do it on Windows as well so… Eh

I was a Nobara user and I’ve gone back. Too many updates that Bork the DE/bootloader (TBF it’s not as maintained as AUR) As for fedora… Random NVidia update borked the system too… But I’m resigned as my GPU being cursed rather than the distro being the isue

Uh!? I’ve been lied to! Editing comment for clarity

You may want to tell your friend to check it now!